Re: [PATCH v2 7/11] Uprobes Implementation

[Andi Kleen]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> so arguably it would be good to just make the rule be that you cannot 
> probe a shared mapping. Because whatever you do, it's always the wrong 
> thing.

But isn't text usually shared?  I don't see how you could set any
break points or jump probes on text pages with that restriction.

BTW there were old patches for NUMA text duplication, maybe they could
be resurrected for that too.

-Andi
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